Description
The artist’s fascination with mirrors as a medium and the process of working on them is unique and with the found objects, he weaves his storytelling in an experimental, innovative manner. This work (The Letters Written for You in translation of the title) is an ode to love and an immortal interaction with time and nature. The artist has used the old handwritten love letters exchanged between his parents in this series. The letters have existed since a long time before the artist’s birth; The form of the sparrows are hand etchings on the mirror on which the letters are visible, the romantic poetry readable written in young, passionate Hindustani handwriting.
The motifs of the sparrows bring in another notion in this receipt of a changing time in this series along with the personal history merged with visual storytelling. During the advent of rapid digitalization, the multiplication of numerous mobile towers in the villages and small towns of India caused a considerable plight to large numbers of birds like sparrows and pigeons. The electromagnetic radiation through the towers harms their natural navigational abilities. The number of sparrows and other birds has gradually become much less through this time of technological advancement. The artist focuses on these lost feelings of joy where the handwritten letters were a memento of love and birdsongs were much closer and frequent. Both the tradition of writing letters with love and care and the visibility of the flock of sparrows are in scarcity now, while Praveer attempts a poetic revival through this artistic archiving of historical love letters embodying a deeply personal value and commenting on environmental sustainability, pointing to the harmful technological behaviors to the nature.Â
The individual pieces can be collected and the body of works can be collected as a series, as well.
